Here's the result as posted this morning. Blue 24, Labour 140, UKIP 261, Tory 352, David Whipp, Liberal, 761. That sounds more like the result I expected. Interesting that if UKIP and BLUE had voted Tory, David would still have won so let's not have any griping about the vote being split.
As for the spurious report about Mike Thompson, how could that happen when it must have been obvious at the count he was nowhere near even before the result was announced. Questions need to be asked....
Watched part of the coverage on BBC2. That bloke Dimbleby doesn't chair discussion he bullies informants as though he was elected and knew better than they do. They were all talking about the prospect of re-election (their own jobs) not policies, principles or ethics.
Here are two links to pieces in the New York Times, one about Europe and one about perceptions of WW1. Both short, accurate and worth a look.
Paul Krugman on Europe
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Perceptions of WW1
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